Here are the mystery movies I was able to glean from TCM’s Now Playing for October 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) I didn’t list all of the Halloween-type movies they will be airing, but if you’re interested in the likes of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and/or Christopher Lee, make sure you check the TCM listings for October. You will be able to find a lot of their movies, some of which are campy enough to make them fun.

Recently I have noticed that TCM is including more movies that don’t come from the Golden Age of Hollywood. (I think of this era as being the 1930s and 1940s, so I guess I ought to call it My Golden Age of Hollywood.)  From this month’s mystery movies below, you will see that there are quite a few movies from the 1960s and some that are from even more recent years. [I’m not sure I like this TCM trend, so I’ll be interested in knowing if it continues. Even though the Golden Age (as I define it!) was before I was born, I still am MUCH more interested in the movies from the 1930s and 1940s. Either way, since I’m not on the TCM board of directors, it really doesn’t matter.]

I’m listing the movies in Central time zone. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during October 2013, please post a comment.

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 1, 2013

THE OUTRAGE (1964) 3:15 PM
A Mexican bandit’s crimes receive wildly different interpretations from four witnesses.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 9:00 PM
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – October 2, 2013

THE BIG SLEEP (1946) 3:30 AM
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – October 3, 2013

DR. CRIPPEN (1963) 2:00 AM
The real-life story of a doctor who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife.
Dir: Robert Lynn Cast: Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar
BW-98 mins, TV-PG

BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952) 2:00 PM
A widow discovers her handyman is an escaped mental patient.
Dir: Harry Horner Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes
BW-77 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 5, 2013

MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993) 1:00 PM
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
Dir: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler
C-108 mins, TV-14, CC

HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL
MARY HIGGINS CLARK’S THE MYSTERY CRUISE (2013) 8:00 PM
Cast: Gail O’Grady, Larry Miller, Michelle Harrison
(Carol Higgins Clark appears as the rich woman whose dog’s collar is lost.)

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – October 6, 2013

KEEPER OF THE FLAME (1942) 5:00 AM
A reporter digs into the secret life of a recently deceased political hero.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf.
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) 7:00 AM
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – October 9, 2013

DEAD RINGER (1964) 3:30 PM
A woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis , Karl Malden , Peter Lawford .
BW-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

MURDER BY DEATH (1976) 8:30 PM
A criminal madman invites the world’s greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
Dir: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
BW-95 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – October 11, 2013

DANGEROUS MISSION (1954) 12:30 AM
A woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
Dir: Louis King Cast: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix
C-75 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 12, 2013

MYSTERY STREET (1950) 7:30 AM
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1935) 11:30 PM
A young student murders for money then tries to escape his guilt and a brilliant detective.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh
BW-88 mins, TV-14, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – October 13, 2013

RAFFLES (1939) 9:00 PM
A suave thief falls in love again with his high school sweetheart and finds temptation and a detective on his trail while visiting her family.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty
BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 15, 2013

BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (1965) 3:00 PM
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – October 16, 2013

GASLIGHT (1944) 6:30 AM
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – October 17, 2013

WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956) 7:00 PM
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming,  George Sanders
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – October 18, 2013

THE NITWITS (1935) 9:00 AM
Two cigar-stand attendants get mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating
BW-82 mins, TV-G

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 19, 3013

THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) 2:30 AM
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
BW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE WINDOW (1949) 3:45 AM
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

MIRACLES FOR SALE (1939) 11:00 PM
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
BW-71 mins, TV-G

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – October 20, 2013

*** Neither of these two movies are mysteries, but they have the Rock Hudson/Doris Day duo, with Tony Randall thrown in for good measure.***

LOVER COME BACK (1961) 7:00 PM
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
C-107 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964) 9:00 PM
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-100 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 22, 2013

CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955) 11:00 AM
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

THE LADY VANISHES (1938) 5:15 PM
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.|
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – October 24, 2013

BARRICADE (1950) 5:00 AM
Two fugitives try to prove the head of a mining camp is a murderer.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman
C-75 mins, TV-PG

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – October 25, 2013

THE RUNNING MAN (1963) 9:15 AM
A man fakes his death to get back at the insurance company that denied an earlier claim.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates
C-104 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (1954) 11:15 AM
A wrongly convicted man takes a young woman hostage while fighting to clear his name.
Dir: Edwards Sampson Cast: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle
BW-74 mins, TV-G

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) 9:45 PM
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
BW-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – October 26, 2013

SISTERS (1973) 12:15 AM
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment
across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
C-93 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – October 27, 2013

THE BAD SEED (1956) 1:00 PM
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
C-129 mins, TV-PG, CC

MR. SKEFFINGTON (1945) 7:00 PM
A flighty beauty marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
BW-146 mins, TV-G, CC  *** This is not a mystery, but it is one very good movie.***

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – October 29, 2013

MIAMI EXPOSE (1956) 1:45 PM
A police detective uses the only witness to a gangland murder to smoke out the mobsters.
Dir: Fred F. Sears Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Patricia Medina, Edward Arnold
BW-75 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – October 30, 2013

CHINATOWN (1974) 1:00 AM
A Los Angeles private eye unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder, then joins his seductive widow to unearth the corruption behind the crime.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Perry Lopez
C-130 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

SHADOW OF DOUBT (1935) 6:00 AM
Murder charges threaten an actress’s marriage plans.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Bruce, Constance Collier.
BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC

WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941) 11:00 AM
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

UNDERCURRENT (1946) 5:00 PM
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – October 31, 2013

THE CONVERSATION (1974) 12:15 AM
A surveillance expert uncovers a murder plot within a corrupt corporation.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
C-114 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

BLOW-UP (1966) 2:15 AM
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
C-111 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

If you would like to see more Television and Movies ideas, click on this link.

Here are the mystery movies I was able to glean from TCM’s Now Playing for September 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) Alfred Hitchcock is being highlighted on Sundays, which is a great thing for those of us who enjoy his work. I know that his movies are thought of as “thrillers” of sorts, but they are also mysteries.

I’m listing the movies in Central time zone. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during September 2013, please post a comment.

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 1, 2013

MURDER! (1930) 9:00 AM (Central)
A juror who had voted to convict a murder suspect tries to prove someone else did it before the execution date.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Herbert Marshall, Nora Baring, Miles Mander
BW-100 mins, TV-PG

ROPE (1948) 11:00 AM (Central)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
C-81 mins, TV-14, CC

SPELLBOUND (1945) 12:30 PM (Central)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE BIRDS (1963) 4:45 PM (Central)
In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
C-119 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) 7:00 PM (Central)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

PSYCHO (1960) 9:00 PM (Central)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – September 2, 2013

FRENZY (1972) 2:30 AM (Central)
When a temperamental man’s ex-wife falls victim to a serial killer, he becomes the number one suspect.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
THE PITFALL (1948) 3:15 PM (Central)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
BW-86 mins, TV-PG

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – September 5, 2013

VERTIGO (1958) 8:00 PM (Central)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – September 6, 2013

PUSHOVER (1954) 1:30 AM (Central)
A police detective falls for the bank robber’s girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey, Kim Novak
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 8, 2013

STAGE FRIGHT (1950) 11:00 AM (Central)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

I CONFESS (1953) 1:00 PM (Central)
A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE WRONG MAN (1956) 3:00 PM (Central)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda , Vera Miles , Anthony Quayle .
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

SABOTEUR (1942) 5:00 PM (Central)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940) 7:00 PM (Central)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) 9:15 PM (Central)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 11, 2013

I CONFESS (1953) 1:00 AM (Central)
A priest suspected of murder can only clear himself by violating the sanctity of the confessional.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – September 12, 2013

OUT OF THE PAST (1947) 4:30 PM (Central)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 14, 2013

SKY MURDER (1940) 9:45 AM (Central)
Detective Nick Carter tries to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne
BW-72 mins, TV-PG

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 15, 2013

NUMBER SEVENTEEN (1932) 9:00 AM (Central)
A detective sets out to recover a necklace lifted by jewel thieves.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Donald Calthrop
BW-61 mins, TV-PG

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956) 2:30 PM (Central)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie
C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

VERTIGO (1958) 4:45 PM (Central)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

REAR WINDOW (1954) 7:00 PM (Central)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
C-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – September 18, 2013

THE HOUSEKEEPER’S DAUGHTER (1939) 5:00 AM (Central)
A gangster’s moll runs home to mother, with reporters and amateur detectives hot on her tail.
Dir: Hal Roach Cast: Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, John Hubbard
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 21, 2013

DETECTIVE KITTY O’DAY (1944) 9:45 AM (Central)
An amateur sleuth drives her boyfriend and the police crazy when she butts into a murder investigation.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan
BW-61 mins, TV-G,

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 22, 2013

THE LADY VANISHES (1938) 12:15 PM (Central)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – September 24, 2013

BLACK WIDOW (1954) 4:00 PM (Central)
The murder of a scheming female writer throws a group of theatrical friends into turmoil.
Dir: Nunnally Johnson Cast: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney
C-95 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – September 28, 2013

ADVENTURES OF KITTY O’DAY (1944) 9:45 AM (Central)
A perky switchboard operator investigates murders that baffle the police.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan
BW-63 mins, TV-G

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – September 29, 2013

EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978) 3:00 AM (Central)
A fashion photographer develops the ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.
Dir: Irvin Kershner Cast: Faye Dunaway, Tom Lee Jones, Brad Dourif
C-103 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946) 5:00 AM (Central)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC
(*** Not a mystery, but one of my favorite Barbara Stanwyck movies. She is absolutely wonderful in it.***)

DEAD RECKONING (1947) 7:00 AM (Central)
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy’s murder.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

SUSPICION (1941) 1:00 PM (Central)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) 3:00 PM (Central)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) 5:00 PM (Central)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

REBECCA (1940) 7:00 PM (Central)
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband’s glamorous first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
BW-130 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

If you would like to see more Television and Movies ideas, click on this link.

I just finished going through TCM’s Now Playing for August 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) Here are the mystery movies that I was able to find. Most of them are old, black and white mysteries. When I say “old”, that’s exactly what I mean!

I have not seen a lot of them, so I cannot vouch for all of them. Those that I have seen, I watched several years ago. I live here in San Antonio, so I have listed the Central time zone. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during August 2013, please post a comment.

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 1, 2013

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)  8:00 AM (central)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE BIG SLEEP (1946)  7:00 PM  (central)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 2, 2013

No mystery movies. Doris Day day – all day.

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 6, 2013

BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)  11:30 AM  (central)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC

SUSPICION (1941)  5:00 PM  (central)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwick.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

REBECCA (1940)  7:00 PM  (central)
A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband’s glamorous first wife.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders.
BW-130 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 7, 2013

ABOVE SUSPICION (1943)  8:30 AM  (central)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt.
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

BORDERLINE (1950)  10:30 AM  (central)
A policewoman goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC

MURDER, HE SAYS (1945)  7:00 PM  (central)
A pollster stumbles on a family of small-town killers.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)  9:00 PM  (central) (***Really good.)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 8, 2013

PUSHOVER (1954)  3:00 AM  (central)
A police detective falls for the bank robber’s girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Fred MacMurray, Phil Carey, Kim Novak.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 9, 2013

BULLITT (1968)  3:00 PM  (central)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 10, 2013

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)  12:00 PM  (central)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 11, 2013

THE WRONG MAN (1956)  2:15 PM  (central)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 14, 2013

Bette Davis day – all day

JEZEBEL (1938)  11:00 AM  (central) (***Not a mystery. Very much à la Gone with the Wind)
A tempestuous Southern belle’s willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent.
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE LETTER (1940)  1:00 PM (central)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941)  10:15 PM  (central) (***This is a Christmas movie.)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 15, 2013

THE NANNY (1965)  3:15 AM  (central)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis , Wendy Craig , Jill Bennett .
BW-93 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

SPELLBOUND (1945)  10:15 AM  (central)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

DESIGNING WOMAN (1957)  12:15 PM  (central) (***This is not a mystery. I saw it years ago and remember it as a cute movie.)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray.
C-118 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 18, 2013

GYPSY (1962)  10:00 PM  (central) (***This is not a mystery, but Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, and Karl Malden are wonderful in it.)
A domineering mother pushes her two daughters to burlesque stardom.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden.
C-143 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – August 20, 2013

MAD MISS MANTON, THE (1938)  12:00 PM  (central)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 21, 2013

BORN YESTERDAY (1950)  10:00 PM ((central) ***It looks like I am trying to convert you all to be Judy Holliday fans. It seems that I keep putting her movies on these list, even though they aren’t mysteries. I’ve mentioned before, she’s one of my favorite actresses.)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 22, 2013

No mystery movies. Maggie Smith day – all day

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 23, 2013

(***All 3 of the movies showing today are quite good. They are not mysteries.)

LIFE WITH FATHER (1947)  10:00 AM  (central)
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor.
C-118 mins, TV-G, CC,

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)  12:00 PM  (central)
A doting father faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter marries.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC

FATHER’S LITTLE DIVIDEND (1951)  1:45 PM  (central)
In this sequel to Father of the Bride, a doting father faces a series of comic trials when his daughter has her first child.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 24, 2013

THE LADY EVE (1941)  7:00 PM  (central) (***If you’re in the mood to laugh, this movie should fill that bill. It has Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda at their best.)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – August 25, 2013

LURED (1947)  1:00 AM  (central)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn.
BW-103 mins, TV-G

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)  7:00 PM  (central) (***This is not a mystery, but is quite good.)
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connoll .
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – August 26, 2013

TWENTY PLUS TWO (1961)  8:30 AM  (central)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill.
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

DANGEROUS CROSSING (1953)  5:30 PM  (central)
When a bride goes on a ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Casey Adams.
BW-76 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – August 28, 2013

THE STONE KILLER (1973)  3:15 AM  (central)
A top detective is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso.
C-95 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – August 29, 2013

(***They will be playing 7 of the 9 Torchy Blane mystery movies today. These are the 7 in which Glenda Farrell played Torchy Blane and Barton MacLane played the detective, Steve MacBride.)

I’VE GOT YOUR NUMBER (1934)  6:30 AM  (central)
Two telephone engineers try to clear a woman of criminal charges.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Joan Blondell, Pat O’Brien, Allen Jenkins.
BW-69 mins, TV-G

FLY AWAY BABY (1937)  11:45 AM  (central) (***Torchy Blane #2)
Reporter Torchy Blane takes to the skies to track down a band of killers.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell , Barton MacLane , Gordon Oliver .
BW-60 mins, TV-G

THE ADVENTUROUS BLONDE (1937)  1:00 PM  (central) (***Torchy Blane #3)
Reporter Torchy Blane walks out on her own wedding to solve the case of a murdered actor.
Dir: Frank MacDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel.
BW-61 mins, TV-PG

BLONDES AT WORK (1938)  2:15 PM (central) (***Torchy Blane #4)
Even a jail term for contempt can’t keep reporter Torchy Blane from investigating the case of a murdered department store owner.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-64 mins, TV-G

TORCHY GETS HER MAN (1938)  3:30 PM (central) (***Torchy Blane #6)
Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-63 mins, TV-G

TORCHY BLANE IN CHINATOWN (1938)  4:45 PM  (***Torchy Blane #7)
A daring lady reporter sets out to catch a blackmailer.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-58 mins, TV-G, CC

TORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR (1939)  5:45 PM  (***Torchy Blane #8)
After digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
Dir: Ray McCarey Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-60 mins, TV-G, CC

SMART BLONDE (1936)  7:00 PM (central) (***Torchy Blane #1)
An ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case.
Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw.
BW-59 mins, TV-G, CC

THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933)  8:15 PM  (central)
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell.
C-77 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – August 30, 2013

OUT OF THE PAST (1947)  5:00 AM  (central)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

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